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In the late 1980s, HIV seroprevalence in Rwanda stood at 17.8% in urban areas and 1.3% in rural areas. Adult symptoms of AIDS are generally different than those of children. For example, worldwide, the most prevalent symptom (about 50% of patients) of HIV infection among adults is cotton wool spots, fluffy white superficial retinal lesions. In a sample of 110 seropositive children in Rwanda, however, cotton wool spots' prevalence was very low (.9%). Further, 20-40% of all AIDs patients worldwide experience small retinal hemorrhages (.8% for 110 seropositive children in Rwanda), an advanced stage of microvasculopathy, 8% of the children had other microvascular conditions. Researchers have isolated HIV in the aqueous humor of 3 patients in Rwanda with retinal perivasculitis indicating that it may contribute to this disease's etiology. Moreover, 46% of the Rwandan children with AIDs experienced perivasculitis and/or sheathing. HIV has also been found in tears, the conjunctiva, the cornea, the retinal vascular endothelium, and from multiple ocular tissues. Even though cytomegalovirus retinitis is the leading opportunistic infection (26%- 40%) of the eye and the major cause of blindness among AIDS patients in Europe and the US, it only appeared in 5% of AIDS patients in a Rwandan study. Physicians have found herpes simplex keratitis to be more resistant to treatment and recurred more often in AIDS patients than in immunocompetent patients. They have also learned that other infectious diseases of the eyes manifest themselves differently between the 2 groups. Kaposi's sarcoma, B-cell lymphoma, and squamous cell carcinoma are often present in patients with AIDS.
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PMID:Ocular problems in AIDS. 218 17

Intraocular lymphoma is a rare ocular malignancy that may occur in the retina or the uvea. Retina or vitreoretinal lymphoma accounts for the majority of cases and is often secondary to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. In the present study, a 66-year-old Caucasian male with a history of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, presented with blurred vision in the left eye one month following cycle 4 of an R-CHOP regimen. At the time of onset, the patient was being treated for bacterial pneumonia. Visual acuity was 20/25 in his right eye (OD) and 20/30 in the left (OS). Ophthalmologic examination showed intraretinal white infiltrates associated with hemorrhage in the superotemporal midperiphery of the retina and vitritis OS. Initial diagnostic considerations included infectious (cytomegalovirus retinitis, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, tuberculosis), inflammatory (retinal vasculitis associated with autoimmune disease or hypercoagulable states) or malignant (intraocular lymphoma) diseases. The patient did not respond to intravitreal injection of foscarnet and oral valgancyclovir. Systemic work-up and aqueous fluid biopsy were inconclusive. Diagnostic vitrectomy yielded inconclusive results and the patient continued to have progressive loss of vision. A repeat diagnostic vitrectomy with retinal and subretinal biopsy confirmed large B cells consistent with metastatic B-cell lymphoma. A concomitant PET/CT scan was performed that revealed bilateral new pulmonary nodules resulting in additional chemotherapy. Our case shows the diagnostic dilemmas in patients with systemic lymphoma and the possible role of concurrent systemic restaging in patients with ocular complaints, even when in systemic remission.
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PMID:Metastatic B-cell lymphoma masquerading as infectious retinitis and vasculitis. 2278 26

Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare B-cell lymphoma occurring mainly in HIV patients. The tumor frequently involves extranodal sites such as the oral cavity, nasal cavity, gastrointestinal tract, skin, and lungs. The neoplastic cells are characterized by a plasmablastic appearance and typical immunophenotype that indicates plasma cell differentiation. Herein, we report a case of intraocular involvement by plasmablastic lymphoma in a HIV patient with a long history of cytomegalovirus retinitis and loss of vision. After an evisceration performed to control the blind, painful eye a diagnosis of PBL was made by examining the eye contents. Two months later, a biopsy of cervical lymph node revealed nodal lymphoma of the same type. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second case of intraocular PBL reported in English literature.
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PMID:Intraocular Plasmablastic Lymphoma in a HIV Patient. 2892 4

Human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-1) infection and adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma (ATL) have been shown to cause immunodeficiency. However, only a few cases have been reported on the development of Epstein-Barr virus positive-diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (EBV-DLBCL) in HTLV-1 carriers or in patients with ATL. Here we report a case of a female HTLV-1 carrier who developed cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis. During the CMV retinitis treatment, she developed a liver tumor. The diagnosis of composite ATL and EBV-DLBCL was made by tumor biopsy. The patient also suffered from pulmonary cryptococcosis and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis at the time of chemotherapy initiation. She had repeated CMV antigenemia and bacterial sepsis during the course of chemotherapy, and she died of bacterial sepsis. HTLV-1 carriers who are complicated with opportunistic infections should be carefully observed not only for ATL development but also for the development of EBV-DLBCL and associated infectious complications.
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PMID:[Composite adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and Epstein-Barr virus-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma]. 3237 71